> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2001-02-15 12:43 UTC:
> > 1) Don't use CSI.
> > I tend to agree - there is not really any reason to use this
> > instead of ESC [. I wonder whether there is anything that
> > uses it. Maybe it can just be removed from the kernel console.c.
>
> The original idea might have been to save a byte, but that doesn't hold
> any more with UTF-8, because both "ESC [" (1B 5B) and "CSI" (C2 9B)
> require two bytes.
>
> CSI should be considered deprecated and recommended practice should be
> not to use it in applications.
>
I don't think we're quite ready to deprecate all the standards-conforming
terminals, emulators, and applications in the world. Let's instead
deprecate those that flagrantly violate the standards by putting graphic
characters in the the control areas, rather than bending over backwards
to accommodate them. UTF-8 and ISO-4873, 2022, and 6429 can and SHOULD
coexist. We are not the ones to repeal standards that all the world has
agreed upon.
- Frank
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